Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is how we thought it might happen. Iraq had to pledge that it would pull out its forces from Kuwait and then carry out the withdrawal. But Saddam would also know that once his troops had pulled out, a process would start that would lead to a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The members of the Security Council would actively participate in this process...
Another problem we could not bypass was the territorial and economic disputes between Iraq and Kuwait. Once again, according to our proposals, Saddam would know ahead of time that talks with the Kuwaiti leadership about these disputes would be organized within an Arab framework -- but only after the withdrawal of Iraq's forces from the entire territory that was under Kuwait's sovereignty until...
Serious thought also had to be given to a regional security system. On the one hand, Iraq's neighbors were apprehensive, and not without reason, because its aggressive behavior in the past few years was based on a rapidly growing military potential. On the other hand, Saddam himself was anxious, since he was sure that he would remain in the "gunsights" even if Iraqi troops were pulled out of Kuwait...
...proposed approach was to guarantee the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait by political means. This would be done by convincing Saddam that following his withdrawal, but not in "linkage" -- I want to stress this -- certain steps would be taken that promoted a settlement of regional disputes and stabilized the situation in the Middle East...
...plan with U.S. officials. It was easy to see the genuine interest of the Americans in these meetings. The heightened interest in exchanging views with me might have been due to the fact that since the beginning of the gulf conflict, Washington had not had any direct contacts with Saddam. It seemed to me that they got their information about the situation mainly from their allies: Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey...